Jürgen Menge

San José, California

Qualifications Summary

NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONAL with experience successfully
executing company roadmaps, identifying solutions to minimize costs and
streamlining workflow that supported company revenue growth. Demonstrated
ability to monitor products delivered and projects installed according to
plans, taking corrective actions to further process improvement.

Strengths include:

New Product Introduction

Release Management

System Development Life Cycle

Process Improvement

Program Management

Customer Product Support

Negotiating With Partners / Customers

Business Partnerships

Accomplishments

Established and ran
NetApp OEM Program with business partners assuring timely introduction and
delivery of new commercial products and platforms into market.

Drove new revenues to
well above $5,000,000 in first few weeks, then grew quarterly revenue to over $50,000,000.

Led cross-functional
teams across three companies, building synergy and ensuring ambitious
milestones are achieved and the overall program on target and on schedule.

Defined and improved
product release and process milestones tightly integrating all departments
(NetApp and suppliers, IBM, and Jabil) for high productivity.

Executed procedures,
prioritizing development and integration tasks and resources among the three
companies for efficient order fulfillment.

Set tight timelines
that drove 13 major releases that all had on-time delivery and on-budget over a
three year period.

Developed and
established new processes to accommodate uniqueness of the OEM IBM business to
satisfy both, NetApp and IBM requirements and solidified strategic alliance.

Designed and
integrated tools to track and monitor flow of transactions with additional
checks and balances to assure continuous success of the OEM business.

Defined and setup
processes establishing essential tool to drive and to measure the success of
the IBM OEM program.

Created global
project plans with milestones that allowed for proper forecasting and resource
requirements and provided effective “what—if” analysis for strategic decisions.